Mass Media | The Internet Will Not Make Newspapers Obsolete
Some observers have predicted that daily newspapers will soon become obsolete in a time when people can get all their news from the Internet. In the following viewpoint Mark Briggs, an editor for the Everett Herald, a newspaper serving the northwest region of the state of Washington, disputes this conclusion in an article written in 2001 when the Herald was celebrating its hundred-year anniversary. Briggs, looking ahead to the next century, argues that while technology will certainly transform how newspapers will be made and distributed, their basic mission—delivering news...
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